Georges Bernardi Explained

Georges Bernardi (1922–1999) was a French entomologist, reading and speaking Russian, French and English. He was the only French representative to participate at the elaboration of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Works

With Le Moult

When working at Eugène Le Moult's shop he wrote some important works in the journal Miscellanea Entomologica:

• 1944. Révision des Aporia du groupe dAgathon, Miscellanea Entomologica, 41, pp. 69–77, 1 plate.
• 1947. Nomenclature de formes européennes de lEuchloe ausonia, Miscellanea Entomologica, 44, pp. 1–24.
• 1947. Révision de la classification des espèces holarctiques des genres Pieris et Pontia, Miscellanea Entomologica, 44, pp. 65–80, 5 plates.
• 1947. La nomenclature de deux Limenitis européens, Miscellanea Entomologica, 44, pp. 81–86.

At the Paris Museum

More important works were:

• 1954. Révision des Pierinae de la faune malgache, 137 pages
• 1985. Le polymorphisme et le mimétisme de Papilio dardanus Brown, 50 pages, 3 plates (1 in colours), Bulletin de la société entomologique de France, 90, pp. 1106–1155 (with J. Pierre and T. H. Ngyuen).

As a director of thesis, he supervised the works of J. Plantrou on Charaxes^[1] and of Nguyen Thi Hong on the Apatura.^[2]

References

1. Plantrou (J.) Systématique, biogeographie et évolution des Charaxes africains, 1983, 456 pages
2. Ngyuen (T. H.) Les Apatura. Polymorphisme et spéciation (Nymphalidae), 1976, 86 pages (also published in German under the title: Polymorphismus und Artabgrenzug in der Gattung Apatura (Nymphalidae)